I moved the content to a wiki article, so this article is a little obsolete.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rpm_(software)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software)
- https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien : alien -k …
- https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdbd-oracle-perl/blob/master/debian/README
Open questions:
- how to deal with dependencies specified within the RPM package?
- …